...estimates that Chanel passed on 20% price increases to customers in 2011, without denting sales.
Luxury brands are also benefiting from the growing sophistication of consumers who aren’t content with knock-offs...
...including Chanel, Agnès B and Isabel Marant) its choice of candidate for the position of president – be it a member of the committee itself or another individual.
This new structure will soon take effect: the...
...bars, Chanel imposes a chic casual dress in the classic black and white. Lanvin, plays the same color card, highlighting the little black dress with long sleeves or with shoulder straps. On Rue Royale, Gucci also...
...it off, Chanel has instead chosen to hide the workings behind a camellia-shaped design.Independent Ulysse Nardin says women's watches now make up a third of its unit sales, up from just 5 percent 12 years ago,...
...recipe Chanel guards preciously secret.Chanel's crystal leitmotif also translated into lots of transparency, like a long swishing multicoloured sleeveless dress, worn with leggings and a tiny blue rucksack with trademark...
...collection for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week. He said he was "happy" not to be able to vote in the "fist fight" here as he was not a French national.Lagerfeld, who admitted he had never voted...
...Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci and Armani -- currently lead in the Chinese marketplace, according to consultants Bain and Co, Zhao was on the look-out while in Paris for less-known designers."I think it is just the...
...Tuesday Chanel takes over the ornate, domed Grand Palais hall -- as has become its Fashion Week custom -- before shows by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Valentino and Alexander McQueen.Marc Jacobs' latest look...
...such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Prada are making a beeline for Britain's wool, footwear and leather factories, which are renowned for their specialist expertise in producing quality goods. Burberry Prorsum...
...successor at Chanel -- took his bow from the applauding crowd in a cheeky Bart sweater and kilt.His other club-ready looks included skin-tight candy-striped dresses, knits emblazoned with emoticons, metallic pink...
...successor at Chanel -- himself took his bow from the applauding crowd in a cheeky Bart sweater and kilt.
His other club-ready looks included skin-tight candy-striped dresses, knits emblazoned with emoticons,...
...Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Dior and Armani -- according to Bain and Co, which estimates China's luxury good sales grew by up to 30 percent in 2011. "American designers are slow to recognize the Asian market...
...Chanel star designer Karl Lagerfeld is already bored with the French presidential election and believes the country would be better-run if its leaders took inspiration from successful businesses like French luxury...
...collection for Chanel. From Valentino to Armani, several of the world's top designers have turned to India to commission elaborate embroideries for their lavishly-beaded gowns.But few have discussed...
...along with Chanel, Dior, Guerlain, Hermes and Cartier.Louis Vuitton, which began making bags in 1854, branched out into ready-to-wear, shoes, watches and sunglasses in the 1990s and 2000s.Carcelle did not want to...
...rivalling Chanel and Dior, before being sold to Japanese investors in the 1980s. A decade later Courreges and his wife Coqueline bought back the brand but it largely disappeared from sight before the purchase by...
...Chanel flew the fashion crowd sky-high on Tuesday, conjuring up a life-sized plane as the runway for an all-blue spring collection as it headlined day two of the Paris haute couture shows.
...names as Chanel, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Givenchy."She's a very glamorous warrior," the tanned, platinum blonde designer told AFP backstage after the show, staged Monday morning on a...
...houses -- Chanel and Givenchy -- sharing the spotlight with small French designers Alexandre Vauthier (a favourite of R'n'B star Rihanna) or Julien Fournie.Jean Paul Gaultier grabs the limelight on...
...decades, Chanel carried on selling suits at a brisk pace after Coco Chanel's death in 1971 -- but in creative terms the house was at a standstill until the arrival of Karl Lagerfeld 12 years later."You...
...references to "Chanel," 8,970 to "Dior," and 6,136 to "Yves Saint Laurent" unless you search for "YSL," in which case that number goes up to 7,381.Graphs at the foot of the...
...pool of Chanel muses has a new denizen. The classic fashion house represented by the two intertwined C's has announced that British rocker Alice Dellal will be the face of the campaign for its Boy Chanel...
...label -- Chanel, Dior, Gaultier and Givenchy -- joined by a number of smaller houses, as well as Italians Valentino, Armani and Versace, and Lebanon's Elie Saab and Rabih Kayrouz.